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Machattie, Alexander, 1842-1879
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Dates of existence
1842-1879
History
Alexander Taylor Machattie was born in 1842, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
He was an analytical chemist in London, Ontario. Around 1868 he founded and operated the Ontario Chemical Works, a subsidiary of the British company, Western Canada Oil Lands, producing sulphuric acid. In 1878, it was taken over by the Canada Chemical Manufacturing Company.
In 1868, he married Mary Ann Craig (1845-). He died in September 1879, in Manchester, Lancashire, England.